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People don't stop being trans because you disagree with them politically. I despise Jenner and other high profile trans grifters but I'm not shitty enough to deny their identities.

Do better. As a user of both sites this shit is genuinely upsetting. Despite how you may feel about hexbear, how can you claim that they bait people into revealing their internalized transphobia and then turn around and make shitty claims like this? I don't give a shit if you call me a tankie or red fash or whatever, but I'm trans whether you like me or not.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I did read what you wrote. You painted the far left and the far right as strikingly similar in terms of dogmatism and action, as though antiracist action is just as bad as racist action. That was your entire "reverse-racism" point, that radicals must be evil if they are radical, which is false. Being radically against transphobia is far better than being radically transphobic.

You can claim you weren't trying to claim they are as bad, but you certainly seemed to be painting a picture that radical leftists are just as bad as radical rightists, because radicalism itself is bad in your eyes.

I'll give you an example: if the two stances are "racism bad" and "racism good," being radically in the "racism bad" camp is a good thing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

If that's your takeaway, then you have zero clue what radicalisation looks like. The radical left isn't 'radically against' transphobia, etc. It is just a different kind of hatred. See FDS for an example.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Nah, the radical left is definitely radically against transphobia. The "both sides" narrative is just dismissal of left wing values, generally.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

The “both sides” narrative is just dismissal of left wing values, generally.

Stop moving the goalposts. The conversation topic is about the extreme ends, I haven't said shit about the general left.

Actually it's pretty clear you aren't arguing in good faith so I'm just gonna stop here.